Neuromuscular Junction

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. The Neuromuscular Junction: Areas of Uncertainty

   • Eleanor Zaimis

   Pages 1-21

3. The Anatomy and Pathology of the Neuromuscular Junction

   • Ruth E. M. Bowden, L. W. Duchen

   Pages 23-97

4. Neurochemistry of Cholinergic Terminals

   • F. C. MacIntosh, B. Collier

   Pages 99-228

5. Transmission of Impulses from Nerve to Muscle

   • B. L. Ginsborg, D. H. Jenkinson

   Pages 229-364

6. Depolarising Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs

   • Eleanor Zaimis, S. Head

   Pages 365-419

7. Competitive Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs

   • Jennifer Maclagan

   Pages 421-486

8. Pharmacology of Anticholinesterase Drugs

   • F. Hobbiger

   Pages 487-581

9. The Clinician Looks at Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs

   • R. D. Dripps

   Pages 583-592

10. Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs in Man

    • S. E. Smith

    Pages 593-660

11. Twenty Years’ Experience with Decamethonium

    • G. E. Hale Enderby

    Pages 661-675

12. Back Matter

    Pages 677-748

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Has the neuromuscular junction been over-exposed or is it perhaps already a closed book? I asked myself this at a recent International Congress when an American colleague complained that the Journal of Physiology had articles on nothing but the neuromuscular junction, while another colleague asked why I was editing a volume on a subject about which everything was already known. It is worrying to think that these views may be shared by other people. I hope that this volume will convince my two colleagues and other readers that the neuromuscular junction is very much alive and continues to attract the interest of many workers from a variety of fields; strange as it may seem, the synapse between a motor nerve ending and muscle fibre, with its relatively simple architecture, is one of the most inter­ esting sites in the body-I do hope we have done it justice. The various chapters of this volume present a cross section of knowledge as viewed by a group of 13 individuals, actively engaged in research. Multi-author volumes such as this are frequently criticised on the grounds that chapters or sec­ tions overlap. I believe that such criticium is only valid where the overlap is repetitious. Where it results in the reader having available discussions of material from differing stand-points, overlap becomes a valuable feature of this type of publication.

• Acetylcholin
• Anticholinesterase
• Dekamethonium
• Muskelrelaxans
• Neuromuskuläre Endplatte
• Neuromuskuläre Erkrankung
• physiology
• research

• Royal Free Hospital, School of Medicine, University of London, London, Great Britain

  Eleanor Zaimis, Jennifer Maclagan

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